THREAT GROWS OF AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN JORDAN

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13 JUNE 1970
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The threat of U.S. intervention in the Jordan crisis grew on Friday as Washingtonu
set up two special task forces to deal with the situation. White House spokesmen said:
President Richard Nixon was "very much. involved" with Jordan and concerned
about American residents there. .
A flood of reports from "U.S. Nixon's National Security Ad- since 1955. His ouster was de-
officials" in Amman, the capital viser, and composed of leading manded by Palestinian forces in
of Jordan, said that Palestinian, State and Defense Department Jordan last April. They accused
resistance forces were stealing officials, discussed how to use Symmes of being a CIA agent
American cars, raping American U.S. Marines from the Sixth and of working closely with Jor- V
women, and that there , was Fleet to "rescue" the 535 Ameri dan's army and intelligence ser-
"widespread destruction of can citizens in Jordan. ` . . vice to crush resistance groups.
,American property." Later, all But the U.S. State Dept. an- . King Hussein of Jordan an..
'these reports were described as' nounced on Friday that an emer- --pounced late Thursday night on
"unconfirmed" and "based on gency civil airlift would evacu- Radio Amman that he had fired'
fragmentary information." ate about 100 U.S. citizens from his uncle, Sherif , Nasser Ben
Administration officials reveal- .. Jordan to the safety of fascist Jamil, as commander-in-chief
ed Friday in Washington that the Greece and that Palestinian of Jordan's armed forces, and
82nd Airborge Division at Fort forces in Amman had released was taking over the job himself.
Bragg, North Carolina, had been 84 foreigners they had been hold- Also dismissed by Hussein was
placed on alert late Thursday as '. ing hostage in two hotels. ' :. Gen. Sherif Zaid Ben Shaker..
part of emergency plans to deal A newly-established special., The Palestinian resistance had
with the Jordan crisis. The offi- task' force on Jordan was func. demanded that both be removed
cials denied that, the U.S.was tioning in the State Dept., head- . from their posts, along with for.
on the point of intervening mill- . ed by former U.S. ambassador, mer premier Wasfi Tal and for-
tarily in Jordan. to Jordan, Harrison M. Symmes. mer Jordan intelligence chief
Marines to the 'rescue' - Symmes is listed in the book,asul el-Kailani. All four earlier
Also on Thursday, the White Who's Who in the CIA (Berlin, this year were named as thole
House, Special Action Group, . "10681, as being Involved in Cen- plotting with. Symmes and the
headed by, Henry A. Kissinger... tral Intelligencq _ ARejcy _ work . CIA to put down the resistance.
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